Most of $17 million of Columbia River Crossing spending (about $12.3 million) was listed as questionable because the approximately 30 subcontractors that collected the payments did not submit proper overhead and profit markup documentation to the general contractor. --Jeff Manning

The MAC, in partnership with developer Mill Creek Residential Trust, has proposed a seven story, 265-unit apartment building. The building would also include apartments and parking rentals for the MAC's use. --Elliot Njus

Ballot Measure 26-156 falls short in too many ways, and poses accountability riddles of its own, to do any good; indeed, it could bring harm. Voters should reject it. The projects it cites as proof of runaway spending are appalling for their symbolic value but in reality play only a bit part in driving rates up.

One of the most scholarly studies of restaurant life cycles may be found
in this Ph.D. thesis by Jeong-Gil Choi at Virginia Polytech: "The Restaurant Industry: Business Cycles, Strategic Financial Practices, Economic Indicators and Forecasting" --Mike Francis

At a time when organized labor is at a low ebb, when union
membership by some accounts has fallen to pre-World War I levels and overt
hostility to big labor is ascendant in much of the country, Pat Maloney is an
unapologetic, unreconstructed union man. --Jeff Manning